Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar … - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth. " And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

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